What’s cooking with the iPad Version of FastTrack Schedule? Lots! In fact, it’s the number one project in our development kitchen. We’re making great progress and working hard to include as many features as possible in the initial release.

This is our first iOS version of FastTrack Schedule, however, it’s not our first mobile version of the product. Many of you may remember that we developed a Palm OS version of FastTrack Schedule. It was a great on-the-go companion to the Windows and Mac versions of FastTrack Schedule, but it was an immense challenge trying to squeeze a great looking Gantt chart onto such a small screen.

Needless to say, we’re very excited to have much more screen to work with on the iPad – it opens up so many more possibilities. And we believe you’ll appreciate the extra real estate as you view and manage your projects.

Are we finished? What features will be in it? When will it be released? I’m sure those are some of the questions on your mind, and we’ll work to provide answers and status updates as we move toward completion.

Large portions of the app are complete, but our work is not done. The Schedule (Gantt) View and Resource View are receiving a lot of attention, and schedules created with the Mac and Windows desktop versions of FastTrack Schedule look great when opened on the iPad. Layouts, Filters, and outlining are working well. Moving rows is in place as are many gesture commands that we have all come to expect on the iPad.

We think you’ll really like the split screen features we’re working on. They’ll make it easy to zero in on specific tasks while still being able to see and edit other portions of your schedule!

These are just a few updates on features. There are many more features that are in progress, and we’ll highlight them in future posts.

Regarding a release date, we don’t have one yet. We’ll continue to share details on the release timetable and features as we roll on, so please stay tuned.

Thanks again for the feature feedback that many of you have provided. Have new ideas or old ideas that you haven’t shared? Don’t hold them in – let ‘em out. Just post a comment or add your idea to our Community Feature Requests.

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Jstewart

Dont the perfect be the enemy of the good. We need it now!

Ryan Kish

OK, that’s our first Voltaire quote in the blog, Jstewart. Point well-taken. We’re working to make sure that the first rev is good, really good.

Please keep HP’s WEBOS 3.0 based tablet in your software pipeline. HP accepting preorders now for release in August – September. The Future is NOW!

Kurt

Hurry up! There is nothing out there right now for effective, easy to use construction scheduling. Cant wait.

Ryan Kish

Thanks, Kurt. We’re cranking away!

Conor

No update for 3 months…. Any news?

Ryan Kish

Looking good. Many new additions over the past couple of months. We’ll have more updates in the coming weeks.

Conor

Ryan, please give us an indication as to when this is likely to be coming to the ipad. Will it be this year, next year, 2013?? Unfortunately the excitement is somewhat now turning into frustration with your vagueness and lack of willingness to inform us with anything more than “it’s doing great, lots more additions” etc. A date please and will this be available in the UK?

Ryan Kish

I appreciate you being frank and upfront, Conor. This is our first iOS development project and there have been some unique challenges along the way. We certainly intended on having the iPad version of FastTrack Schedule available by this time. As for an official release date; unfortunately, we don’t have that date just yet. This is our number one development project, and the team is working hard to ensure that we ship a version that meets the standards that our customers expect from a FastTrack Schedule product. Regarding UK availability, yes, we intend on making the iPad versions of FastTrack Schedule available to customers in the UK as well.

Conor

Thanks Ryan, I appreciate you must be experiencing a lot of hurdles and pressure, as we all do in the project management world. Do you think it’s going to be out this side of Christmas? Sorry to be nagging.

Anonymous

Hi Conor, I’d like to back you up on your quest for info on the release date. If it is a while off i.e. > a month then I will have to spend money on some alternative solution. If the release will be sooner then I will hang in there with what I have. So Ryan any indication of release will be handy. Thanks

Ryan Kish

Dagszim, at this time we’re unable to say that a release
within a month is certain. We continue to work toward completion and look
forward to providing you with a release date.

Ryan Kish

Your desire to have a release date is by no means nagging, Conor. Yes, there are always hurdles. Our goal is to get over them as quickly as possible. A release by Christmas would be a great gift – who wouldn’t want FTS in their iPad stocking? Is it a certainty? Today, we can’t say that it is. After a few more weeks of revved up development, we’ll have a much clearer picture.

Montie23

How is it coming along?

Ryan Kish

New feature additions, UI, and testing are going great. As for a release date, we don’t have one at this time. We hope to have more details to share with everyone soon.

Thanks for the update! Would be happy to beta test for you if you need it. We’re daily FastTrack 10 users for 15+ projects, and my iPad is with me all day long for notes, accessing Basecamp, etc.

Ryan Kish

Thanks for the offer, Andrew. Will let our Dev Team know. Glad to hear that you and your team are making use of FastTrack day-in and day-out. Any recent/upcoming projects you’d like to brag about? We’d like to hear about them.

Rich Madonna

Do you have a beta that you are looking for people to test?

Ryan Kish

Hi Rich – At the present time, we don’t have a Beta program for the iPad version. Thanks for the interest.

SimonK

I don’t suppose that you have any news on this saga? I bought this software in knowledge that something was coming for iPad …. but it has now been months and you cannot even tell us when? Straight question …. when is it coming? Straight answer please!

Ryan Kish

We don’t have a date just yet, Simon. We look forward to wrapping up development and providing everyone with the launch date as soon as it’s nailed down.

Mark Smith

Is import/export to other formats e.g. Mindmanager, iThoughts supported (key for me!) or only import/export of Fasttrack Schedule files? Also, is there Dropbox support?

DrWarden

I was impressed with the software after reading reviews and sampling videos. But after viewing this thread of comments, I am very concerned about investing a significant amount of money and effort on this software. I have to ask myself what is the likelihood that the the project management app being “developed” will be better than the actual project management of the iOS app…. the inability to give even a ballpark estimate (after almost 8 months now of teasing) on a submission to the App Store, is a commentary in and of itself. Definitely NOT the fast track!

Anonymous

I agree. I’m looking for a project scheduling software and it would be nice to know if the iPAD app is a dream or truth.

Kevin

Hurry, hurry, hurry, really need it.

Dean

13 months development! Do we have to wait for another 13 months, weeks or days? Rough idea please.

Ryan Kish

Appreciate your patience. Working hard to wrap it up. Will deliver release details as soon as we have them locked down.

Dean

Ryan – Another week gone by. We use fast track on Macs and think it is great. That is why we are keen to have the iPAD version for use out of the office. However, we need to actually get on and do stuff and if aecosoftware can not give us a ball park idea for availability, which can be no more damaging if that is missed than this silence, we will have to consider alternative iPAD apps. Don’t want to do that so please talk to us or get someone to give you permission to talk to us.

If it helps you may copy and paste the following reply, that I am sure you will give in any case, so that you can stay focussed on the development: “We look forward to wrapping up development and providing everyone with the launch date as soon as it’s nailed down.”

Ryan Kish

Glad to hear that your team is making great use of the Mac version of FastTrack, Dean. And I understand your desire to go mobile with FastTrack ASAP. Feel free to call me at our main office, (800) 450-1985. I welcome your feedback, feature ideas, and questions on the iPad and Mac versions.

kimkpsg

Gald to hear the good news about IOS, but are you considering anything for Android?

Ryan Kish

We’ve had a lot of requests from FastTrack customers with Android tablets. Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich were great updates. As we work to finalize the iOS version of FastTrack, we’re taking a good look at the possibilities within Android.

Andrew Hartman

Dr. Warden makes a good point below. The irony of 8 months without an update to your stakeholders (being us your customers) seems a little strange. Can you share a rough schedule for roll out, or at least provide an update?

Also note that anytime your website is linked to Facebook or displayed in Flipboard (i.e. your twitter feed) the iPad app shows (See attached image). You might consider updating code to resolve this if the iPad app is on the backburner.

Dean

“Are we finished? What features will be in it? When will it be released? I’m sure those are some of the questions on your mind, and we’ll work to provide answers and status updates as we move toward completion.” May 2011

“………..”. Total status updates and answers provide between May 2011 and February 2012!

Carlos Moreno

Guys,

You need to release the app; you are loosing market ground and we need the app now!

Carlos Moreno

Guys,

You need to release the app; you are loosing market ground and we need the app now!

4800292

Gentleman, I simply can not purchase further software without at update on the iPad software version. Unfortunately the competitors have rolled out the cross platform which is very important to my teams mobility.

4800292

Gentleman, I simply can not purchase further software without at update on the iPad software version. Unfortunately the competitors have rolled out the cross platform which is very important to my teams mobility.

Ricmon3

What is the status of FT for ipad? This is terrible, going on a year now and we have no indication of this will ever become reality. This is a major blunder for AEC!

Ricmon3

What is the status of FT for ipad? This is terrible, going on a year now and we have no indication of this will ever become reality. This is a major blunder for AEC!

Jamkazoun

What is more important to me is to have FastTrack on the iphone, not ipad. Also, for the iPhone, I would not worry about charts (Gantt etc.), rather I want to use the functionality for my todo list of the project. Right now, I am using OmniFocus on the Mac OS and iPhone and unhappy with the functionality and that I had to abandon FastTrack for that. I would like FastTrack to be on the iPhone and to be the best todo list manager for my work, and to be able to sync with the Mac OS version. Again I don’t care _at all_ about having charts on the iphone.

Jamkazoun

What is more important to me is to have FastTrack on the iphone, not ipad. Also, for the iPhone, I would not worry about charts (Gantt etc.), rather I want to use the functionality for my todo list of the project. Right now, I am using OmniFocus on the Mac OS and iPhone and unhappy with the functionality and that I had to abandon FastTrack for that. I would like FastTrack to be on the iPhone and to be the best todo list manager for my work, and to be able to sync with the Mac OS version. Again I don’t care _at all_ about having charts on the iphone.

Dean

Any updates since May?

Dean

Any updates since May?

Dean

Nope! Time to move on.

Dean

Nope! Time to move on.

Carlos Moreno

Is about a year since the announcement – can we have a date? You should have this information specially, if AEC uses FT for the project.

Carlos Moreno

Is about a year since the announcement – can we have a date? You should have this information specially, if AEC uses FT for the project.

Bengaljo

Well?? Is it coming or not? Very Disappointed in the silence & delay.
I started to use the Mac version looking forward to working on the train on my iPad.

Bengaljo

Well?? Is it coming or not? Very Disappointed in the silence & delay.
I started to use the Mac version looking forward to working on the train on my iPad.

Ryan Kish

Yes, it’s coming. Not too far away. Thanks for your patience.

Montie23

Well this is a symptom of something else. Why cant they say when? Maybe the company is grossly mismanaged. Maybe they are being bought out or are understaffed with no talent. If it was for a good reason they would say. The fact that they have left this thread here, that is a shining example of there ability to ignore the customer, tells me that new customers are not on there minds. The most humorous thing is a company that makes scheduling software cant nail down a date. To quote a old boss “you couldent find a date in a fruit basket”. I have been flowing this discussion since I bought the software a year ago. Thats 12 months, 52 weeks and 365 days. I am being a little mean here but in this day and age if you don’t move fast and respond to your customers you will never get good reviews anywhere. Put something out there, listen to your customers, add the features they want, rinse repeat. Not that hard. You brought this on yourself.

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